Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen - the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria - took up residence on Dragonstone. Fire & Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their dynasty apart.

Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo, the brilliant hacker, the obstinate outsider, the volatile seeker of justice for herself and others - even she has never been able to uncover the most telling facts of her traumatic childhood, the secrets that might finally fully explain her to herself. Now, when she sees a chance to uncover them once and for all, she enlists the help of Mikael Blomkvist, the editor of the muckraking investigative journal
Millennium. And she will let nothing stop her.

Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis,
Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.

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Man's Search for Meaning

By:
Viktor E. Frankl

Narrated by:
Simon Vance

Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
13,794

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
11,181

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
11,191

Internationally renowned psychiatrist, Viktor E. Frankl, endured years of unspeakable horror in Nazi death camps. During, and partly because of his suffering, Dr. Frankl developed a revolutionary approach to psychotherapy known as logotherapy. At the core of his theory is the belief that man's primary motivational force is his search for meaning.

In this adrenaline-charged, up-to-the-moment political thriller, Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist are back. The troubled genius hacker and crusading journalist thrilled the world in
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,
The Girl Who Played with Fire, and
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, which have sold more than 80 million copies worldwide.

The modern audience hasn't had a chance to truly appreciate the unknowing dread that readers would have felt when reading Bram Stoker's original 1897 manuscript. Most modern productions employ campiness or sound effects to try to bring back that gothic tension, but we've tried something different. By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure - a series of letters and journal entries voiced by Jonathan Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, and other characters - with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.

Why we think it’s a great listen: How do you one-up a book that’s already a global literary phenomenon? Hire Simon Vance to (flawlessly) interpret the loves, lives, and murders of Sweden’s cold and secret-filled world. A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue. It's about the disappearance 40 years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden.

Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine
Millennium, has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government. On the eve of publication, the two reporters responsible for the story are brutally murdered.

The second Dune installment explores new developments on the planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and strange, threatening environment.
Dune Messiah picks up the story of the man known as Muad'Dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to fruition an ambition of unparalleled scale: the centuries-old scheme to create a superbeing who reigns not in the heavens but among men. But the question is: DO all paths of glory lead to the grave?

Lisbeth Salander—the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels—lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she’ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority.

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A Tale of Two Cities [Tantor]

By:
Charles Dickens

Narrated by:
Simon Vance

Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,444

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
3,846

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
3,900

A Tale of Two Cities is one of Charles Dickens's most exciting novels. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, it tells the story of a family threatened by the terrible events of the past. Doctor Manette was wrongly imprisoned in the Bastille for 18 years without trial by the aristocratic authorities.

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The Blinding Knife

By:
Brent Weeks

Narrated by:
Simon Vance

Length: 24 hrs and 19 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
5,720

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
5,263

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
5,261

Gavin Guile is dying. He'd thought he had five years left - now he has less than one. With 50,0000 refugees, a bastard son, and an ex-fiancée who may have learned his darkest secret, Gavin has problems on every side. All magic in the world is running wild and threatens to destroy the Seven Satrapies. Worst of all, the old gods are being reborn, and their army of color wights is unstoppable. The only salvation may be the brother whose freedom and life Gavin stole 16 years ago.

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Interview with the Vampire

By:
Anne Rice

Narrated by:
Simon Vance

Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,545

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,078

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,090

Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force - a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write. From the Paperback edition.

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The Black Prism

By:
Brent Weeks

Narrated by:
Simon Vance

Length: 21 hrs and 26 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
5,294

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
4,889

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,874

Gavin Guile is the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserve a tenuous peace. But Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live: five years to achieve five impossible goals. But when Guile discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he's willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart.

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Children of Dune

By:
Frank Herbert

Narrated by:
Scott Brick,
Simon Vance

Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
5,179

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,186

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,200

The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered, and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone. But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet's economy.

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The Blood Mirror

By:
Brent Weeks

Narrated by:
Simon Vance

Length: 20 hrs and 30 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
6,383

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
5,840

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
5,819

When does an empire fall? The Seven Satrapies have collapsed into four - and those are falling before the White King's armies. Gavin Guile, ex-emperor, ex-Prism, ex-galley slave, formerly the one man who might have averted war, is now lost, broken, and trapped in a prison crafted by his own hands to hold a great magical genius. But Gavin has no magic at all. Worse, in this prison Gavin may not be alone.

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The Complete Sherlock Holmes

The Heirloom Collection

By:
Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by:
Simon Vance

Length: 58 hrs and 4 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
6,550

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
6,071

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
6,069

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes tales are rightly ranked among the seminal works of mystery and detective fiction. Included in this collection are all four full-length Holmes novels and more than forty short masterpieces - from the inaugural adventure
A Study in Scarlet to timeless favorites like “The Speckled Band” and more. At the center of each stands the iconic figure of Holmes - brilliant, eccentric, and capable of amazing feats of deductive reasoning.

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The Broken Eye

By:
Brent Weeks

Narrated by:
Simon Vance

Length: 29 hrs and 33 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
5,505

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
5,102

Story

5 out of 5 stars
5,096

Without the protection of his father, Kip Guile will face a master of shadows as his grandfather moves to choose a new Prism and put himself in power. With Teia and Karris, Kip will have to use all his wits to survive a secret war between noble houses, religious factions, rebels, and an ascendant order of hidden assassins called
The Broken Eye.

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The Tao of Pooh

By:
Benjamin Hoff

Narrated by:
Simon Vance

Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,689

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,194

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,187

Author Benjamin Hoff shows that the philosophy of Winnie-the-Pooh is amazingly consistent with the principles of Taoism and demonstrates how you can use these principles in your daily life. Is there such thing as a Western Taoist? Benjamin Hoff says there is, and this Taoist's favorite food is honey.

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God Emperor of Dune

By:
Frank Herbert

Narrated by:
Simon Vance

Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
3,850

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
3,155

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
3,170

More than 3,000 years have passed since the first events recorded in
Dune. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the virtually immortal God Emperor of Dune. He alone understands the future, and he knows with a terrible certainty that the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can breed new qualities into his species.